Kasra Abdavi-Azar

FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow, KU Leuven

Talks (selection)


‘Ancient Platonists on Zoroaster and Persian Magi’
School of Philosophy and Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2025, invited)

‘Handling Problematic Lore: Platonists on Myth’
22nd Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, University of Athens (2025, peer-reviewed abstract)

‘Early Greek Philosophy in Islamic Garb. Persia’s Platonising Doxographers’
Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna (2025, invited)

‘Under the Guise of Conservatism: Emperor Julian’s Reactionary Traditionalism’ (in German)
Der Kaiser als Theologe, Heidelberg University (2024, invited)

‘A Eurocentric Self-Refutation: Deconstructing Eurocentrism from Within’
Classics Beyond Borders, University of Ghana (2024, peer-reviewed abstract)

‘Three, Two, One? Counting Plato’s Principles with Eudorus’
Platonist Discourses on Dualism. 1st c. BC to 3rd c. AD, University of Toronto (2024, invited)

‘Neoplatonists on the Translatability of Theologies’
Antike-Kolloquium Südwest, Heidelberg University (2023, invited)

‘Plato, Platonists, Persia’ (in Persian)
Persian Philosophical Society (2022, invited)

‘Aristotle’s Hylomorphism Revisited: Why Forms Can Exist Apart From Matter’
Materia, 气/Qì, and Their Epistemes, University of Science and Technology of Beijing/KU Leuven (2022, invited)

‘Platonists on Sages and Saints’
Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar, University of Cambridge (2022, invited)